Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

Surprisingly, the location of Commander Vargas' palace was actually just a few kilometers away from the castle of the Evergreen royal family, specifically located in the middle area of the Emerald City, a place that residents in the Emerald City called as, Noble Zone.

From the north wall of Commander Vargas' palace, they needed to ride a carriage twice, first in the Civilian Zone where they used a Public Carriage for transportation, then they were stopped in the Noble Zone by some guards, where they then decided to ride a Private Carriage of Commander Vargas.

The reason why they didn't simply fly to the sky so as to arrive quickly at their destination was because of the 'No-Flying' policy targeted towards the people in the Emerald City. Aside from the Evergreen royal family and their forces in the Emerald Tree Kingdom, everyone else is forbidden to fly. Of course, excluding the Flyingboats and Flyingships, since those were considered as transportation, not people, still there are areas in the Emerald Tree Kingdom that forbid flying transportation as well.

Although Commander Vargas wasn't included in that 'No-Flying' policy, considering that he's a Commander of the Evergreen Magical Knight Division, specifically a division under the Evergreen royal family itself, but since he was with Mister Loki and his group, he could only choose to travel using the carriages. After all, as the host, he of course can't just ditch them and then tell them that he will meet them at his palace. That's outright disrespectful and not to mention undeserving for people with Mister Loki's status. If he indeed does that, he won't be able to blame them if they actually choose to completely ignore his invitation to his palace. Even though he isn't clear on Mister Loki's exact status yet, for someone to have a person with a 9 Star level cultivation under his command, he's definitely someone with power or commendable status.

Along the way, Leo and the others slowly got to know more about Commander Vargas, including his 8 Star Magical Knight cultivation and the exact reason why he was smiling delightfully while watching Chief Lago and Sebastian slaughtering the Goblins of the Hunter Goblin Guild.

"Oh, interesting, I didn't expect that your hate for the Goblins is actually not because of a race-bias, but rather because they have almost killed all the participants in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition in the past," Leo said, a bit surprised of the main reason why Commander Vargas hates the Goblin race.

"What do you mean?" Commander Vargas asked, a bit intrigued by what Mister Loki had thought about in the beginning.

"Well, at first I thought that you only hated the Hunter Goblin Guild in particular, not generally the Goblin race. And that the main reason is because they owned plenty of Pleasure Houses full of slaves. You know, slaves, Elves, there's this common relation between the two," Leo explained.

"Oh, you mean to say that because the natural enemy of the Elves are Slave Hunters, which is to say those Pleasure Houses should also have a lot of female Elves within them, right?" Commander Vargas quickly understood what Leo meant with his words.

Leo nodded his head in confirmation.

Commander Vargas replied, "To be honest with you, I don't really care about those Pleasure Houses of the Hunter Goblin Guild nor the fact that there are indeed a lot of female Elves within them. After all, I also buy slaves from time to time, the majority of them are for war purposes in order to reduce the casualties of my army, but sometimes I also use them to satisfy my carnal desires, especially when I am on the battlefield where all my wives are far away from me. And besides, that's not surprising for us males, right? In my opinion, almost all of us would resort to doing such things. Though there indeed exist some men who don't do that, but I'm not included in that, so I would just look like a big hypocrite if I say that the reason I hate Goblins is because of those Pleasure Houses, hahaha!"

"Indeed," Leo nodded his head in understanding. Although he still doesn't have that much of an experience when it comes to those kinds of things yet, he can still understand.

Aside from that, Commander Vargas also talked about the history of the Emerald Tree Kingdom with Leo and his group, mostly about the Emerald Event and Emerald Elven Battle Competition.

"Actually, in the Noble circle, the information about the exact amount of Galaxy level Magical Beasts that have been exchanged to the Evergreen royal family is common knowledge. I will not be hiding anything from you as I can feel that you will be adding more to that record soon. You're indeed correct, there are exactly fifteen Galaxy level Magical Beasts in total that has been exchanged throughout the history of the Emerald Event," Commander Vargas replied after being asked by Mister Loki about the exact number of Galaxy level Magical Beasts that have been exchanged to the Evergreen royal family.

"If it's okay to ask, why are those five other Galaxy level Magical Beasts were not recorded in the history of the Emerald Event?" Leo quickly raised another question.

"It's also not a secret and there is no harm in telling you, so I guess I can tell you about it," Commander Vargas paused to think about something. In the next moment, he replied, "The main reason is because the Evergreen royal family doesn't want a lot of people to know about those five Galaxy level Magical Beasts."

"Why?" Leo can't help asking.

"You see, the common thing about those five Galaxy level Magical Beasts is the fact that they are all exchanged by someone that had already exchanged a single Magical Beast to the Evergreen royal family in the past. Only a few people knew about this; actually, once you exchange a second Galaxy level Magical Beast to the Evergreen royal family, they will offer you more in exchange, which honestly speaking, if a lot of people knew about, would definitely cause the Evergreen royal family to suffer a lost... In fact, the maximum limit they accept from a single person or a group is set to the maximum limit of five Galaxy level Magical Beasts. If one gave any more than that, they will not hesitate to reject them," Commander Vargas replied.

Suddenly, Commander Vargas laughed before soon explaining, "To be honest with you, the main reason why I am even telling you this is because I want you to do it! You can say that I'm encouraging you to exchange five Galaxy level Magical Beasts to the Evergreen royal family so that you can let me see their reaction. In such a way, I can have something to joke about with his Majesty, hahaha!"

"I'll try," Leo smiled wryly. Even though he had said before that he will exchange more than a single Galaxy level Magical Beasts to the Evergreen royal family, he's still not feeling confident about catching five of them. Saying such a thing is easier than done. After all, even if he has Charlotte, Ethan, Edward, and Chief Lago to back him up on catching a Galaxy-level Magical Beast, it still can't change the cultivation level of those Magical Beasts. They are still considered as powerful Magical Beasts, so he can't be feeling overconfident about catching them.

After nearly twenty minutes of the journey, they have finally arrived at Commander Vargas' palace.

In front of them right now was an enormous palace made out entirely of stone, brick reinforced with a Defensive Magic array located somewhere in secret nearby the palace in order to further increase the defensive capability of the place. The land around was also very big, maybe around ten square kilometers or so, though most were just empty grasslands.

"It's really unfortunate that we can't buy a territory as big as your place," Leo can't help commenting after looking around Commander Vargas' palace.

"I can help you increase the maximum territory limit that you can buy, but maybe around 3 to 5 square kilometers land only. After all, you're still considered as temporary residents and not to mention from a Foreign race as well," Commander Vargas quickly took the initiative to increase the amount of territory the Mischievous Lion Guild could buy in the Emerald Tree Kingdom as temporary residents after hearing Mister Loki's words. He already knew that their final destination is the Horizon Empire from their conversation a while ago, so it wouldn't hurt them that much to give them such privilege. And besides, he can consider this as befriending a future big shot. That is, if Mister Loki and his Mischievous Lion Guild could indeed become successful once he arrives at the Horizon Empire.

"Then, I guess I'll own you a favor for this," Leo nodded his head to express his appreciation. A 3 to 5 square kilometers land might not be a big deal for others, but for him, this would allow the Mischievous Lion Guild to grow tremendously in the Emerald Tree Kingdom. The problems that they were facing before due to a limited territory space could finally be solved. Not only that, but they can also construct some other establishment that wasn't included in their plan before, in particular those that can generate profit like the Public Market.

"No problem, I am glad that I could help you," Commander Vargas smiled in response. He then continued, "Anyways, let's come inside to my humble abode,"

With that said, Leo and the others soon walked inside the palace, following the lead of Commander Vargas.